Well turns out i gotta get up at 530 to go to the club. Supposed to be raining off and on tomorrow.
I was gonna cut the tammy #2 down in the morning, but im not gonna do that. Im gonna grab the loppers tonight and go stare at her for a bit, then make a decision one way or another.
Chugotitmang
@Captspaulding you can put me on temporary hold if im part of next week crowd if ya want.. Im about to be harvesting for a month straight while getting prepared to move and working all the time to boot. Itd be a bad time to send me something to keep up with anyway lol. I got clones of everything. All just gonna be stasis for a bit tho
Hey dude. Keep in mind the government is going to tax you on anything you sell once you have sold $600. PayPal WILL send you a tax form. I don’t want you getting fucked some more.Just wondering if anyone wants to smoke a cigarette, drink some coffee and have some pillow talk with me this morning, I always love the morning after when I get FUCKED
So as some of you may know I'm in this Amazon Vine program where I get to order stuff from a huge list of things, for "free" and I just have to review it and I can keep it, or sell it or give it away, whatever. Well the catch to the program is they fuckin 1099-NEC you at the end of the year, for the tax value of everything you ordered. So say I order something listed for 200 dollars, I am responsible for 200 dollars worth of taxable income. Of course just like normal taxes, the more you make the more you pay (higher tax brackets etc).
So, I thought I would try to make some actual money off of this in order to cover the inevitable tax obligation I will have, and maybe put a couple dollars profit in my pocket. Well I made the mistake of taking 1k worth of retail value stuff to a pawn shop yesterday. It was mostly a few karaoke machine/bluetooth speakers, a professional sound mixer, etc.
Now, don't get me wrong. I understand how pawn shops work, I've dealt with them plenty over my years on this planet. They screw people just as a general rule. They're in it to make money, of course like anyone else in business.
Here's where I made my mistake. I assumed they would give me a "fair" value on the items I brought them. Now, in my book, "fair" would be 35% of the total retail value. This gives me enough to cover the tax obligation, plus put a few dollars in my pocket. That leaves the pawn shop with 65% potential profit margin on unopened, unused brand new products.
Did they even come close? Fuck no. Gave me 165 bucks on 1,015 dollars worth of brand new shit
I even went to a pawn shop that I have been going to for years. I mean, when I was doing drugs, I probably put the store manager's kid through collegeand that was the best they could do? It was a fucking insult.
I took it, unfortunately. If I wasn't so desperate, I would have turned around and walked out, but kinda needed the money so I took the hit.
Lesson learned? Fuck pawn shops. No, I already knew this, but seriously? These places should just be banned and forgotten as a bad memory in history. I vowed years ago to stop pawning shit, and ever since I got out of that pawn game, life has been good. I figured I could at least sell some shit to them here and there, but that, too, is a no go
I got a guy living on my property right now, who's stuck in that pawn game. He's pawned a bunch of his tools and shit and lives on a disability check bigger than mine. Yet every month dude spends 3/4 of his disability check on getting stuff out of pawn, just to bring it back to pawn a couple days later, and he's been stuck in that same damn pattern for years, never getting ahead, just ice skating uphill, trying like hell and going nowhere.
So, thank God I'm not stuck in that shit.
I do believe I will attempt to sell this shit on Ebay from now on. I think even if I started bidding at a penny, I'd still be better off than selling to a fuckin pawn shop
Oh, believe me, I know, I should have known better, but I had to give it a shot, I figured maybe, just maybe, they would show a speck of humanity, but that's my bad for assuming
There is a total difference between the thought process of an enlightened individual and one who has not experienced altered states. To me it seems to literally revolve around understanding and acceptance of others. I have started to notice this lately and as I said before it’s been over five years since I’ve tripped, but I think it only takes one trip to open a persons mind. It’s sad that people’s minds are often conditioned by societal expectations and norms to the point where they become almost incapable of thinking with a different perspective.If we made everyone do DMT once a year and micro dose boomers. I would be curious as to how the world would be. I beleive it would be so much better
Somehow the gov can keep track of the $200 I gave to nobody special .
That’s cuz they sent it and or stole it.Somehow the gov can keep track of the $200 I gave to nobody special .
Yet they’re unable to find the millions sent to our enemies
What happened? Just throwing in the towel?
this is like 1/4 of one of my smallest plants lol.
Knucklehead!Yeah pretty much. Where to start
I made the risky move of vegging them outdoors and then bringing them in to flower. Then I forgot to reset my timer (I was turning the light off and on manually for a while) and started flowering without realizing it. Did a major pruning while they were switching to flowering without realizing that happened. Decided to switch back to veg lighting, 7 days after the accidental flip. They decided to go through a full on reveg. Waited like two damn months for that to correct itself. I brought thrips from outdoors which pyrethrin and neem was not working on. Finally defeated them with Spinosad (unquestionably the best organic insecticide for thrips). Had ugly leaves dying up and up and thought it was a combo of insect stress coupled with repeat sprays. But that issue was masking the fact that I probably had fusarium disease in the soil. Then they started showing Septoria leaf spot to boot. Decided I would try to kill the fungus in the soil with an acid to at least try and see what would happen. I used an organic product that is about as capable of that as any, at least outdoors, but failed to take into account the acidifying effect and after the fact discovered that they all got watered with a solution that was literally less than a ph of 4..
Quite the fucking list am I right!!!!????
You know I find it absolutely nuts that you pay for flower.I argued with myself about it for a bit, but then I drove a hard bargain and stuck a deal.
She's not quite done but I don't want to buy any more flower at this point.
Main cola will hang to dry. Fresh trimmed her. Yea, I know, I know, fuck off
I'm gonna fresh freeze all the small buds and pick up some butane and a tube tomorrow and make myself some love resin. The trimmings are exceptionally dank trimmings and prob dry in ac open by tomorrow evening. I'm thinking I'll spliff all that stuff up.
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Well I believe that just ended. The trim oil I made should get me through to those spiffsYou know I find it absolutely nuts that you pay for flower.
I have t bought a sack since 2013, only because I was on a 3 month tower gig , even then, I died a little.
This cannot stand bro.
Also. Want to say, mad respect, it takes a certain type of character to admit defeat on a forum. Legit, that’s pretty awesome, sorry for the situation. But I have nothing but high regard for folks that can roll with the punches. Not destroy everything in sight, pick yourself up, dust off (or not, I hate shower days) and just be real about a shitty thing that happened one time.